HOOK

hook, walter farquhar (1798-1875), english divine, nephew of the witty theodore, was born in london on the 13th of march 1798. educated at tiverton and winchester, he graduated at oxford (christ church) in 1821, and after holding an incumbency in coventry, 1829-1837, and in leeds, 1837-1859, was nominated dean of chichester by lord derby. he received the degree of d.d. in 1837. his friendship towards the tractarians exposed him to considerable persecution, but his simple manly character and zealous devotion to parochial work gained him the support of widely divergent classes. his stay in leeds was marked by vigorous and far-reaching church extension, and his views on education were far in advance of his time. among his many writings are _an ecclesiastical biography, containing the lives of ancient fathers and modern divines_ (8 vols., 1845-1852), _a church dictionary, the means of rendering more effectual the education of the people, the cross of christ_ (1873), _the church and its ordinances_ (sermons, 4 vols., 1876), and _lives of the archbishops of canterbury_ (12 vols., 1860-1876). he died on the 20th of october 1875. see _life and letters of dean hook_, by his son-in-law, w. r. w. stephens (2 vols., 1878). hookah (the english spelling of the persian and hindustani _huqqu_, an adaptation of the arabic _huqqah_, a vase or casket, and by transference a pipe for smoking, probably derived from the arabie _huqq_, a hollow place), a pipe with a long flexible tube attached to a large bowl containing water, often scented, and resting upon a tripod or stand. the smoke of the tobacco is made to pass through the water in the bowl, and is thus cooled before reaching the smoker. the _narghile_ of india is in principle the same as that of the hookah; the word is derived from _nargil_, an indian name for the coco-nut tree, as when the _narghile_ was first made the water was placed in a coco-nut. this receptacle is now often made of porcelain, glass or metal. in the _hubble-bubble_ the pipe is so contrived that the water in the bowl makes a bubbling noise while the pipe is being smoked. this pipe is common in india, egypt and the east generally.